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One Long Day of Joy: Easter Week in Cecilia Hüge’s Prayer Book
Cecilia Hüge’s Easter prayer book does not treat Easter as a feast that ends on Sunday morning. Instead, it presents… Read More
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Brides of the Risen Christ: Female Agency in the Easter Images of Cecilia Hüge’s Prayer Book
Among the most striking features of Cecilia Hüge’s Easter prayer book are its repeated images of the Agnus Dei, the… Read More
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A Gold-Flowing Night: Holy Saturday and the Easter Vigil in Cecilia Hüge’s Prayer Book
While many of us today spend Holy Saturday on last-minute preparations before Easter, the nuns of late medieval Buxtehude observed… Read More
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The Hunt for the Buxtehude Prayer Books: Neukloster in the Local News
In late 2025 the regional newspaper Buxtehuder Tageblatt published an article about my research on the late medieval prayer books… Read More
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Rocking the Christ Child: A Christmas Image From a Buxtehude Prayer Book
The starting point for this post is a small, striking image in a late medieval Christmas prayer book now preserved… Read More
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New Digital Facsimile of Christmas Prayer Book from Neukloster Buxtehude
I am delighted to announce that the Archives and Rare Books Library at the University of Cincinnati has recently digitized… Read More
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Dombibliothek Hildesheim Agrees to Digitize the Buxtehude Prayer Book in Their Collections
The Dombibliothek Hildesheim agreed to digitize the prayer book MS 729 in their collections. The prayer book was recently identified… Read More
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New Buxtehude Prayer Book Found!
I recently identified another manuscript from Neukloster Buxtehude: a lavishly illuminated Christmas prayer book housed in the Dombibliothek Hildesheim (Ms.… Read More
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